Caroline de Gruyter
@carolinedegruyter.bsky.social
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Europe observer. Brussels correspondent/columnist for NRC, Foreign Policy, De Standaard, EUobserver. www.carolinedegruyter.eu Book: what the EU can learn from the Habsburg Empire - available in five languages
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carolinedegruyter.bsky.social
CSU (Bavaria) went back to the center in 2018, and started to grow again. Dutch CDA was almost done for two years ago, and then a new leader took it back to the center. Now it is going to be one of the largest parties again in the elections end October.
center.now
carolinedegruyter.bsky.social
Such a classic.
Center-right parties that start aping far-right parties harm or even demolish themselves in the process (LR, the Tories, the VVD, etc etc)
garvanwalshe.org
Years of aggressive polarising rhetoric seem to be hurting the PP and rewarding vox.

This is usually what happens. Feijoó would do better to return to his earlier concilating persona
europeelects.bsky.social
Spain, GESOP poll:

PP-EPP: 29% (-2)
PSOE-S&D: 28% (+1)
VOX-PfE: 18% (+2)
Sumar-LEFT|G/EFA: 8%
Podemos-LEFT: 4%
ERC-G/EFA: 2%
SALF-ECR|NI: 2%
Junts-NI: 1%

+/- vs. 10-12 June 2025

Fieldwork: 03-09 October 2025
Sample size: 1,000

➤ europeelects.eu/spain
carolinedegruyter.bsky.social
EU external borders: irregular crossings fall 22% in the first 9 months of 2025

www.frontex.europa.eu/media-centre...
carolinedegruyter.bsky.social
I would change "years" for "weeks"...
hanstino.bsky.social
Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) has published an updated threat assessment and it is as expected if “conventional military threat” means invasion.

It also states “It is highly likely that the hybrid threat from Russia against NATO will increase in the coming years.”
carolinedegruyter.bsky.social
Drones over Poland, telecom cables damaged deep beneath the Baltic Sea, airports paralysed by cyber-attacks and quadcopters: "None of these on its own is a casus belli, but together they are adding up to something new and dangerous".
Good article in @economist.com
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Vladimir Putin is testing the West—and its unity
NATO must resist Russia’s efforts to corrode it from within
www.economist.com
carolinedegruyter.bsky.social
So much for the European single market
Reposted by Caroline de Gruyter
carolinedegruyter.bsky.social
This photo will haunt Keir Starmer for a long time